House of Lords
Gardeners' Question Time
BBC
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
I’m having no luck growing chillies from seed. What am I doing wrong? Which plants would the panel recommend to bring fragrance and colour? Which way should a fig tree face to produce the most fruit?
Ready to answer all these questions and more, Kathy Clugston and her team of experts have been invited to the House of Lords for this week’s programme. Joining Kathy to offer their best horticultural tips and tricks are Head of Oxford Botanical Gardens Dr Chris Thorogood, garden designer Matthew Wilson, and plantswoman Christine Walkden.
Among the questions, Kathy chats to Baroness Fookes about the importance of gardening today.
Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod Senior Producer: Dan Cocker Executive Producer: Hannah Newton A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.4 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable |
| 0:14.3 | experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC |
| 0:20.4 | makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
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| 0:42.0 | Hello, I'm Kathy Clugston and this is Gardner's Quickson. podcasts. and enjoy the next 45 minutes of great tips, advice and dubious horticultural humour. |
| 0:58.0 | Hello and welcome. You join me today in a little south-facing green space amid the |
| 1:05.8 | hustle and bustle of Westminster I'm in Blackrod's Garden in the shadow of |
| 1:10.2 | Victoria Tower right next to the south Wing of the Houses of Parliament. |
| 1:15.0 | Gardner's question time has been invited by the House of Lords to record a special episode here. |
| 1:20.0 | It's to mark the publication of a new report into the state of the UK's horticultural sector. |
| 1:24.9 | Now we're no strangers to recording an iconic surroundings, so we leapt at the chance to |
| 1:29.3 | invite an audience of GQT listeners to join us here and mingle with some garden-loving lords, ladies, barons and baronesses. |
| 1:37.0 | We're also here to highlight the work of the Horticultural Sector Committee. |
| 1:41.0 | Its chair Lord Reedstale is with me now. Lord Reedstale, welcome. |
| 1:44.4 | Well, thank you. |
| 1:45.4 | Thank you for having us here at the House of Lords. |
| 1:47.4 | Now, our list is probably don't know much about this report. |
| 1:49.9 | Can you tell us what it is? |
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